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Kela receives 1.5m applications for last-resort benefits after cuts to other support

THL: Young adults over-represented among social assistance recipients

Income support sanctions at 12,000 since January

Poll: Income support system discourages people from returning to work

Earnings-related unemployment allowances hit 20-year high

Närpes mayor hails immigration after Finns Party criticism

Kela: Immigrants require twice as much income, housing support as native population

Thursday's papers: Income support row, manual labour wages and smuggling fiasco

Thursday's papers: Second wave worries, exit strategies for radicals, tropical nights

Survey: Crisis worsened hunger, financial distress in Finland

5 questions about Finland's welfare reform: "It's like slicing up an elephant kilo-by-kilo"

Poverty and Social Security

Posti strike to delay Kela payments, hospital letters

Report: More people using income support to meet benefits shortfall as poverty rises in Finland

Economic growth not reflected in households drawing income support

NGOs filling gaps as people wait for delayed social assistance

Survey: Government failing to reduce inequality in Finland

Wednesday's papers: Activation model cost, lifelong learning and Interrail applications

Lifelong Learning

Ombudsman: Urgent action needed to tackle child poverty in Finland

Kela boss: Activation model sees no major change in jobseeker attitudes

Finland’s unemployed await word of possible benefit cuts in new activation model

Public welfare watchdog: Benefits covering fewer expenses than ever

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

No more loans for new high school students

Kela to pay out compensation for benefit payment delays

Compensation (Wages)

Thursday's papers: Hardship over delayed support payments, free daycare a local election issue and ski hero set to cash in on big win

Undocumented migrants legally eligible for income support, still get refused

Study: Moving house a lot when young linked with marginalisation

Who stands in the bread queue?

Municipal Development

Räsänen seeks crackdown on foreign benefit claimants

Residence permit

Next year’s budget published

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